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“The Penitent Thief”
https://app.pureflix.com/videos/454403622925/the-penitent-thief
Featuring: Kevin Sorbo
Background / Plot Synopsis
• The two men (Dismas and Jotham) are brothers. Their father was an alcoholic and left them to fend for their mother and themselves. Mother and youngest brother are killed when King Herod orders the execution of all the boys under two after Jesus’ birth.
• They join a band of thieves and spend 30 years surviving as brigands - Tiran, the leader, and Gestas, Tiran’s son, become close with Dismas and Jothum.
• Dismas is injured on a raid and dreams of his childhood home and of Jesus. Jesus heals him in the dream.
• Tiran seeks revenge against a man who left the group and kills him and his family. Dis mas wants to leave before it gets worse. Jotham is divided. Gestas overhears their plan to flee.
• Tiran forces the brothers to fight, but Gestas kills his father. Dismas and Jothum leave the gang and get jobs mending nets in Capernaum. Dismas meets and falls in love with a woman.
• Jesus arrives and Dismas hears Him preach. Jothum is in the crowd, stealing from people. The brothers divide - Dismas looks towards the future and new possibility with Christ and Jothum looks back at what happened to them.
• Jothum returns to the gang and Dismas marries Adinah and starts a family. The gang and Dismas stumble upon each other on the road to Passover and the Romans find Barrabas, Jothum and Dismas and put them in jail.
• Dismas and Jothum are jailed with Barrabas, who is subsequently freed instead of Jesus
• Dismas and Jothum are crucified alongside Jesus
Bible Verses:
• For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be unit ed with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. – Romans 6:5-6 (NIV)
My Review:
I decided to review The Penitent Thief film on Pure Flix. I haven’t ever saw this film before but was curious to see Kevin Sorbo play King Harrod. I liked watching the story of the two thieves who was crucified alongside Jesus. It made me wonder about their backstory and how they ended up being next to Jesus. I also loved the mercy, grace, and forgiveness one of the brothers had when he asked Jesus to remember him and stated how they were guilty for their crimes but not Jesus. Jesus did something powerful by telling the brother that he would be with him in paradise. The other brother chose to follow the crowd and mock Jesus by taunting him to save himself if He is in fact the Messiah. I also enjoyed how the film also covered the birth of Jesus and it connected the thieves at the very beginning to meeting Jesus. I think this movie is a perfect film to get people ready for Easter. It wasn’t as violent and graphic as the Passion of the Christ film was but there were still moments that was difficult to watch of the crucifixion. This story impacted me by reminding me that we all like the thieves and we have all sinned. We get to choose which brother we want to be like the one asking Jesus for mercy and forgiveness or the one who mocks that Jesus is who He said He is. At some point in our lifetime, we might have been both brothers. The choice is yours to make. Choose Jesus and enter paradise.
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Disclosure:
Many thanks to Pure Flix for providing a sample of the product for this review. Opinions are 100% my own.
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